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This all seems wishful thinking on the part of snow lovers. The truth is that whatever snow falls, if any, won't last. The pattern this winter has been cold snap followed by immediate warmup. So much for the snow. The reality is that DC is not a mecca for winter enthusiasts. Heavy snows here are sporadic and infrequent which is why local government snow budgets are so meager and local drivers are largely clueless about winter driving.
I'd LOVE to see a good snow and I still think Mother Nature is gonna surprise us before winters' out. Well, if it's not this storm, the almanac on my calendar says Friday the 24th, we'll get snow?? "undeliverable mail;" you mention local drivers being clueless; that may be true, but we have to remember, between the government, military, embassies, etc., lots and lots of people in the DC area are from somewhere else!
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From the point where the hated eachother. Well, Edward never truly hated Bella. There has always been mixed feelings and emotions swimming in Bella's head.
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Load time constant initialization firstname.lastname@example.com (shrey) (2006-04-03) |
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Date: | 3 Apr 2006 01:38:52 -0400 |
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I was wondering if some one can tell me if present day
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Can some one point me to some documentaion for some exisiting linker
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Cazenovia pitching was led by brothers Burke and Matt Regan who combined for four shutout innings, while Isaac Steves struck out four batters in two innings.
Cazenovia never looked back as the Lakers took a 6-0 lead after the first inning led by Ryan Misture's first-inning double and Will Kemitz's bases-loaded triple. Alex Nannery, Josh Bauder, Will Shepard and Judd Spaulding led the scoring with two runs each, while Jack Gabor, playing with a bruised left forearm, scored one run.
The championship game capped a magical 10-0 undefeated season where Cazenovia beat its opponents consistently by double digits. Cazenovia's closest game of the season came at the hands of Fabius, which Caz won 8-0.
The Laker pitching staff, which was led by Burke and Matt Regan, Isaac Steves, Alex Nannery, Tom Bragg and Will Shepard, was phenomenal all season. Although few teams could hit the Laker pitching, the offense was just as impressive. Cazenovia scored an average of 15 runs per game, while holding its opponents to an average of three runs per game.
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The Laker team would like to thank the Cazenovia Baseball Association for this opportunity to compete against other towns, as well as the coaches and parents.
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Is Constructive Logic Relevant for Computer Science?
Thorsten Altenkirch, University of Nottingham
Modern Mathematics is based on classical logic and Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory. In this talk I'll discuss why a constructive approach, such as Martin-Loef's Type Theory, may be more appropriate for Computer Science.
Games for Algorithmic Problem Solving (invited tutorial)
Prof Roland Backhouse, University of Nottingham
Combinatorial games provide a very fruitful source of examples of algorithmic problem solving because they are all about winning --- identifying an algorithm that will guarantee that you win and your opponent loses! The theory of combinatorial games is also a fruitful source of illustrations of advanced algebraic structures (fields, vector spaces etc.), with the advantage that the problems are concrete and easily understood, but their solution is often very difficult.
This tutorial focuses on using combinatorial games to illustrate important concepts in fixed-point calculus. After a short introduction and overview, we use so-called "loopy games" (games that are not guaranteed to terminate) to illustrate least and greatest fixed points; we also relate properties of winning and losing to calculational rules, like the so-called "rolling rule" of the fixed-point calculus.
Foundations of a Generic C++ Library for Generalised Satisfiability Problems
Tony H Bao, University of Wales Swansea
The Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is an actively researched area in computational theory today. While many SAT Solvers were contributed over the years, most of them are written or rewritten from scratch due to the immense implementation details required for increasing efficiency and very often generality was sacrificed for the need for speed. However, with the help of Generative Programming (GP), generality and efficiency can coexist and play nicely together. In this talk I'll give an overview on some of the work I have done on OKLibrary - a generative C++ library aimed at providing a generic algorithmic framework for solving generalised satisfiability problems with combined focus on both high generality and high efficiency.
Modelling and Specification in the Development and Analysis of Communications Protocols
Communications protocols consist of a set of rules to govern the
communication between two or more agents. The study of such protocols
illustrates a common feature of modern computing culture: the meeting
of the mathematical approaches to modelling and specification favoured
by computer science, and the pragmatic development characteristic of
traditional engineering. Many communication protocols were first
developed without a rigorous specification, and formal analysis has
typically been first ventured only after problems have emerged in
practice. A key problem in applying modelling and specification
techniques in this context is identifying suitable abstract properties
that can be usefully studied in isolation from the actual physical
components of the implementation. We explore this issue and its
implications by comparing and contrasting the role that formal
specification has so far played in the practical development and
analysis of communications protocols of two different kinds:
authentication and network protocols.
Authentication protocols typically consist of agents who attempt to
reliably establish the identity of the other agents through an
exchange of messages. Analysis of authentication protocols
establishes properties such as secrecy and the agreement of
identities. Tools such as CASPER and the model-checker FDR have been
successfully applied to check for these properties and have discovered
flaws such as the message replay attack in the Needham-Schroeder
authentication protocol. The properties being analysed are clear,
easily identified and well understood.
Network protocols, such as those documented by the Internet
Engineering Task-force (IETF), are quite varied with each exhibiting a
different set of traits. This means that network protocols cannot be
characterised as neatly as authentication protocols. For instance, in
some circumstances it can be difficult to formulate the correctness
properties of a network protocol. This raises the question of what
abstract support can be given to the engineering of such protocols
through informal or semi-formal modelling and specification.
We review some recent literature describing efforts at network
protocol specification and as a specific example we discuss the
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP), part of the Internet
Protocol (IP) specification and necessary for hosts on a network to
receive multicast data. Multicast allows the transmission of data to
multiple hosts simultaneously while only transmitting one copy of the
data onto the physical network. This is in contrast to unicast, where
a copy of the data is sent across the network to each recipient
individually. IGMP allows a host to report their membership of
multicast groups to a local multicast router.
Some of the problematic issues that arise in studying communications
protocols appear to be related more generally to well-recognised
challenges in applying formal methods in software development. They
include the problem of integrating state-based and event-based
formalisms within a coherent framework, and integrating manually
generated code with code that has been derived from a formal
specification. The overall objective of our study is to determine what
further insight into these difficult problems of integration can be
gained from a critical appraisal of previous work on formalising
communications protocols.
This is joint work with Jane Sinclair and Meurig Beynon.
Undecidability of the Membership Problem for a Diagonal Matrix in a Matrix Semigroup
We present a proof of the undecidability of diagonal matrix reachability
in a matrix semigroup. Since our proof shows that the above problem is
undecidable in dimension 5, it sets a new bound on the problem (currently
the problem is open in all dimensions). We will show a number of encodings
to reduce the Post correspondence problem to the reachability of a diagonal
matrix in a 5x5 matrix semigroup.
This is a joint work with Igor Potapov.
Termination Analysis of lambda-calculus and a subset of core ML
Lee, Jones and Ben-Amram introduced "size-change termination", a
decidable property strictly stronger than termination. They proposed a
method called the "size-change principle" to analyze it.
I propose an extension of the size-change principle to a subset of ML
featuring ground type values, higher-order type values and recursively
defined functions. Compared to other works, this is the first time that
the size-change principle is applied to a higher-order functional language.
The language handles natively if-then-else and let rec structures. The
resulting algorithm produces the expected result for higher-order
values but can also analyze the size of ground type values. This
enhances the scope of the termination analyzer to some recursively
defined function operating on numbers.
Type-safe Clipboard Operations for Document-Centred Functional Programs
Functional programming systems tend to consist of a separate editor and
compiler/run-time environment, and static type checking is performed
after editing. However, with a document-centred system, there is no
separation between the editor and the run-time environment. This is a
talk about issues arising from the combination of functional programming
with a document-centred interface. The main focus is on the advantages
which type-checking brings to the user, and the best ways to provide
clipboard operations, and other direct manpipulation facilities, in a
type aware environment.
Checking Dependently Typed Programs
The goal of this work is to present an independent type checker for
Epigram programs. Epigram elaborates programs written in its high-level
syntax into the low-level formal language of type theory. Constructions in
this formal language for even modest programs are large and complex therefore
we cannot hope to just look at them to convince ourselves that programs are
correct. An idea put forward by Pollack is to write a small type checker that
we can understand directly to provide ourselves with the necessary conviction
that our programs are correct. I will report on progress made to this end.
A Theory of Tracing Pure Functional Programs
Tracing enables us to see how different parts of a program cause a
computation to perform its observable input/output actions. Thus tracing
supports understanding how a program works and locating the source of
runtime errors. For declarative languages tracing methods that are different
from, and arguable more powerful than, conventional methods for imperative
languages have been developed. These methods take advantage of the purity
of declarative languages, that is, explicit data flow and absence of side
effects. Functional languages are particularly suitable for these methods,
because they have simple and well-studied semantics, and lazy functional
languages are the most widely used completely pure programming languages.
There now exist several tracing systems for Haskell, demonstrating the
practical viability of different tracing methods. However, combining
different methods and generalising them further proves hard to do and
many anomalies and defects in existing systems have come to light. To
overcome these problems we need simple models of the tracing systems.
We need a theoretical foundation for tracing. It is the aim of an EPSRC
project starting right now to provide this foundation.
In the talk I will describe several tracing methods. I continue with a
number of problems and shortcomings that have come to light. Finally I will
outline the semantical theory that we intend to establish. The theory will
describe both strict and non-strict languages and prove the correctness
of various fault location algorithms.
The MSO Theory of Level-2 Term Trees is Decidable
Software verification, unlike hardware verification often gives rise to
infinite state systems, and hence the standard techniques that have been
so successfully employed in the former rarely carry over to the latter.
This talk is about unearthing various classes of infinite structures with
decidable model-checking properties. In particular, we investigate
higher-order grammars as generators of infinite trees. Higher order
grammars generate infinite term trees and these term trees can be thought
of as an accurate model of the syntax trees of higher-order recursive
programs. In 2001, Knapik et al. managed to show that subject to a
particular syntactic restriction on the grammars known as "safety", these
trees were ripe for model checking -- i.e. they possessed a decidable MSO
theory. We show that (at least up to level 2), this restriction can be
removed. In this talk I will introduce the general problem of software
verification, monadic second order logic, higher-order grammars, the
"safety" restriction and culminate in the statement of our result (to
appear in TLCA '05).
Game Semantics and CSP Based Approach for Software Model Checking
We present an approach for software model checking based on game semantics
and CSP. Open program fragments are compositionally modelled as CSP
processes which represent their game semantics. This translation is
performed by a prototype compiler. Observational equivalence and
verification of properties are checked by traces refinement using the
FDR tool. Effectiveness of our approach is evaluated on several examples.
Algebraic Decompositions of Finite Automata and Formal Models of Understanding
Wreath product decomposition of finite state automata has many different
potential applications: it could yield automated object-oriented programming
in software development; hierarchical decompositions may serve as formal
methods for understanding in artificial intelligence; the least number of
needed levels for decomposition provides a widely applicable integer-valued
complexity measure; and it relates to conservation laws and symmetries
in physics. The algebraic theory of such decompositions was first developed
in '60s, but there has never been a computational implementation until
recent work carried out by the author with the supervision of Prof. C. L.
Nehaniv at the University of Hertfordshire This talk briefly delineates
the algebraic decomposition theory and reviews the variations of the
algorithms presented in different proofs, then discusses the results
of the first computational implementation.
Architectural Support for Collaboration Technology for Socio-Technical Systems
The main objective of this proposal is to build a coordination-based solution
for supporting modelling of dynamic human-centric collaborative systems. We
will focus on how modelling of predictable human interactions, in terms of
norms and norms violation, and externalizing its emerging properties can
contribute to managing human components in a flexible way that can respond
easily to evolving social and organizational settings as well as new
requirements. These properties shall be conceived by studying how to
correlate Institutional power for modelling norms, category theory for
specifying components and their architectural connectors and finally
temporal logic for injecting time and state notions. Appropriate problem
analysis and design approaches will be investigated to provide tools
and techniques to systematic Architecture-based development for
collaborative systems that are of human-centric nature. Socio-technical
systems are the ideal examples of such systems.
Network Discovery and Landmarks in Graphs
Consider the problem of discovering the edges and non-edges of an unknown
graph. Initially, only the vertex set of the graph is known. A query at
a vertex reveals all edges that lie on shortest paths between that vertex
and the rest of the graph. The goal is to minimize the number of queries
made until all edges and non-edges have been discovered. We discuss upper
and lower bounds on the competitive ratio achievable by on-line algorithms
for this problem. We also give results for the off-line version of the
problem, which turns out to be equivalent to the problem of placing
landmarks in graphs.
Coherence via Confluence
Coherence problems are widespread within category theory and, although
individual problems have been addressed in detail, there seems to be
no systematic way of tackling them. We show how coherence can be
studied uniformly by using a 2-dimensional version of Knuth Bendix
completion which constructs not only a complete rewrite system, but
also an equational theory extending Levy's permutation equivalence. We
exemplify our theory with a number of canonical examples.
The Soft Machines: Computing with the Code of Life (invited talk)
Cellular computing is a new, rapidly expanding field of research at
the intersection of biology and computer science. It is becoming clear
that, in the 21st century, biology will be characterized more often as
an information science. The flood of data generated first by the
various genome projects, and now by large-throughput gene expression,
has led to increasingly fruitful collaborations between biologists,
mathematicians and computer scientists. However, until recently, these
collaborations have been largely one-way, with biologists taking
mathematical expertise and applying it in their own domain. With the
onset of molecular and cellular computing, though, flow of information
been growing in the reverse direction. Computer scientists are now
taking biological systems and modifying them to obtain computing devices.
Cells are being re-engineered to act as microbial processors, smart
sensors, drug delivery systems and many other classes of device. This
talk traces the brief history of cellular computing and suggests where
its future may lie. No biological background will be assumed.
This talk is sponsored by the
London Mathematical Society.
Parsing and static analysis of CSP-CASL
We formalise the syntax and static semantics of the recently proposed
specification language CSP-CASL, in the style of Natural Semantics.
We then show how to build a parser and a static analyser according to
these definitions within the framework of Hets, the Heterogeneous Tool
Set for the algebraic specification language CASL. On the technical
side this uses the combinator parser library Parsec, in the functional
programming language Haskell. All this takes place within the wider
context of developing tool support (theorem prover, model checker,
tools for computing different representations), for CSP-CASL.
Samoa: Formal Tools for Securing Web Services (invited talk)
An XML web service is, to a first approximation, a wide-area RPC
service in which requests and responses are encoded in XML as SOAP
envelopes, and transported over HTTP. Applications exist on the
internet (for programmatic access to search engines and retail), on
intranets (for enterprise systems integration), and are emerging
between intranets (for the e-science Grid and for e-business).
Specifications (such as WS-Security, now standardized at OASIS) and
toolkits (such as Microsoft's WSE product) exist for securing web
services by applying cryptographic transforms to SOAP envelopes.
The underlying principles, and indeed the difficulties, of using
cryptography to secure RPC protocols have been known for many years,
and there has been a sustained and successful effort to devise formal
methods for specifying and verifying the security goals of such
protocols. One line of work, embodied in the spi calculus of Abadi
and Gordon and the applied pi calculus of Abadi and Fournet, has been
to represent protocols as symbolic processes, and to apply techniques
from the theory of the pi calculus, including equational reasoning,
type-checking, and resolution theorem-proving, to attempt to verify
security properties such as confidentiality and authenticity, or to
uncover bugs.
The goal of the Samoa Project is to exploit these recent theoretical
advances in the analysis of security protocols in the practical
setting of XML web services. This talk will present some of the
outcomes of our research, including: automatic analysis of
hand-written pi-calculus descriptions of WS-Security protocols;
automatic generation of pi-calculus descriptions from WSE config and
policy files; and formal analysis of the WS-Trust and
WS-SecureConversation specifications. Along the way, we have
discovered a range of security issues.
Based on joint work with K. Bhargavan, R. Corin, C. Fournet, and R.
Pucella at Microsoft Research, Cambridge.
A Compiler for a Functional Quantum Programming Language
We introduce a compiler for the functional quantum programming language
QML, developed in Haskell. The compiler takes QML expressions as input
and outputs a representation of quantum circuits (via the category FQC
of finite quantum computations) which can be simulated by the simulator
presented here, or by using a standard simulator for quantum gates.
We briefly discuss the structure of the compiler and how the semantic
rules are compiled.
Level of Repair Analysis and Minimum Cost Homomorphisms of Graphs
Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) is a prescribed procedure for
defence logistics support planning. For a complex engineering
system containing perhaps thousands of assemblies, sub-assemblies,
components, etc. organized into several levels of indenture and
with a number of possible repair decisions, LORA seeks to
determine an optimal provision of repair and maintenance
facilities to minimize overall life-cycle costs. For a LORA
problem with two levels of indenture with three possible repair
decisions, which is of interest in UK and US military and which we
call LORA-BR, Barros (1998) and Barros and Riley (2001) developed
certain branch-and-bound heuristics. The surprising result of this
talk is that LORA-BR is, in fact, polynomial-time solvable. To
obtain this result, we formulate the general LORA problem as an
optimization homomorphism problem on bipartite graphs, and reduce
a generalization of LORA-BR, LORA-M, to the maximum weight
independent set problem on a bipartite graph.
This is joint work with A. Rafiey, A. Yeo and M. Tso.
Weak Bisimulation Approximants
Bisimilarity is the canonical behavioural equivalence for processes
algebras, Weak Bisimilarity generalises this by admitting silent
behaviour. Weak Bisimulation Approximants approach weak bisimilarity
by considering games whose length is bounded by an ordinal number; so,
for example, the nth approximant relates exactly those processes whose
behaviour cannot be distinguished in a game lasting n turns. On BPP, a
simple process algebra, it is believed that one never need play a game
that lasts for more than omega times two steps (i.e. that the
approximant hierarchy collapses at level omega times two). However,
currently the only proven bound is the Church-Kleene ordinal (the
least non-recursive ordinal number). I wish to show how the bound
can be brought down to omega to the omega, and suggest an approach for
reaching the omega times two conjecture.
Experiments and Optimal Results for Outerplanar Drawings of Graphs
We will review our experiments with heuristics and genetic algorithms
for low crossing outerplanar drawings and on classes of graphs with
optimal outerplanar drawings.
Number Systems and Data Structures (invited talk)
Data structures are a lot like number systems: adding an element to a
container corresponds to incrementing a number, deleting an element
from a container corresponds to decrementing a number. This talk takes
a closer look at the intimate relationship between data structures and
number systems. We show, in particular, how number systems with
certain properties can be utilised in the design and analysis of data
structures. To this end, we discuss various number systems - some
well-known, some less so - and show how operations on container types
can be modelled after their number-theoretic counterparts. As a
worked-out example, we introduce a variant of finger trees that
supports deque operations in amortised constant time, and
concatenation and splitting in time logarithmic in the size of the
smaller piece. Finally, we exhibit the number systems that underly
well-known data structures such as red-black trees and 1-2 brother
This talk is sponsored by the
Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council.
Computational Classes of Monoids
In this talk we will concentrate on the following four computational
classes of monoid: rational, automatic, asynchronously automatic and
hyperbolic. We study algebraic and computational properties of the
relations between these classes of monoids. We will present the complete
inclusion structure of these classes of monoids is described. By doing
so we will answer in particular open questions concerning the relationship
between automatic and hyperbolic monoids: Hyperbolic monoid are not
necessarily automatic.
Accurate Step Counting
Starting with an evaluator for a language, an abstract machine for the
same language can be mechanically derived using successive program
transformations. This has relevance to studying both the space and time
properties of programs because these can be estimated by counting
transitions of the abstract machine and measuring the size of the
additional data structures needed, such as environments and stacks. In
this talk I will use this process to derive a function that accurately
counts the number of steps required to evaluate expressions in a simple
The Source Location Problem in Digraphs
We are concerned with the problem of selecting the location for facilities,
subject to some constraints, in a given network. The nodes selected are
called sources and users at other nodes access the facilities at the sources
through the network. Thus a measure of the robustness of the network is the
number of disjoint paths there are between each user and the sources.
More formally, a set of (k,l)-sources for a digraph D = (V,A) is a subset S
of V such that for any v in V there are k arc-disjoint paths that each join
a vertex of S to v and l arc-disjoint paths that each join v to S. The Source
Location Problem is to find a minimum size set of (k,l)-sources. We provide
a polynomial algorithm to solve this problem and discuss progress on other
variants of the Source Location Problem.
This is joint work with Jan van den Heuvel.
Belief Revision for Resource Bounded Agents
Rationally updating and revising beliefs is traditionally thought to be
possible only for computationally ideal agents who can compute all
consequences of their beliefs, regardless of time and space limitations.
Focusing on rule-based agents, we show how resource bounded agents can
revise and update their beliefs in time linear in the size of the
agent's state and program. We argue that such operations are rational,
as they satisfy all but one of the AGM postulates for revision. We also
discuss the relationship between belief revision and update.
Combinatorial Tools for Propositional Satisfiability Decision
Boolean formulas in CNF (conjunctive normal form) are
the dominating input format for SAT (satisfiability) solvers.
I will discuss a natural (and well-known) generalisation of CNF's
as "combinatorial data structures", which leads to a very
natural approach to (hyper)graph colouring problems; a theoretical
application, generalising a theorem of Seymour, is outlined.
Logics for Transition Systems from Representations of Functors
Coalgebras X-->TX for a functor T on a category XX are a well-established
model for transition systems. The basic idea of the talk is that
specification languages for these transition systems are obtained from
the dual functor L of T on the Stone dual of the category XX. But the
dual L itself yields only `abstract propositions' (meaning equivalence
classes of formulas up to interderivability), neither a practical
definition of the formulas nor a calculus defining derivability. We
introduce the notion of a functor L being presentable by operations and
equations and show that each presentation of L gives rise to a sound,
complete, and expressive modal logic for T-coalgebras (modal operators
are induced by the operations, modal axioms by the equations).
Pareto Optimality in House Allocation Problems
In many practical situations we have two sets of entities S, T, and we seek
to assign the members of S to elements of T. For example, S might be a set
of people and T might be a set of houses - this corresponds to large-scale
applications such as the allocation of students to campus housing in American
universities, or the allocation of families to government-subsidised housing
in China.
Formally, an instance of the House Allocation problem (HA) involves a
set A of agents, and a set H of houses. Each agent in A has an acceptable
set of houses and ranks this set in strict order of preference. A matching
M ofagents to acceptable houses is Pareto optimal if there is no other
matching M' such that (i) some agent is better off in M' than in M, and (ii)
no agent is worse off in M' than in M. In this talk I will present an
efficient algorithm for the problem of finding a maximum Pareto optimal
matching in an instance of HA, together with related results concerning
Pareto optimal matchings.
The problem model described here has applications in many other contexts,
such as the allocation of students to projects, and also the Scottish
Executive's Teacher Induction Scheme. This is joint work with David
Abraham, Katarna Cechlrov and Kurt Mehlhorn.
Dependently Typed Programming: An Epigram Induction (invited tutorial)
Types characterize the data and programs which in some way
'make sense'.
Dependent types—types expressed in terms of data—can
capture notions of 'sense' which are relative
to that data. There are many such notions which inhabit our
heads but not so typically our programs. Dependently typed programming
seeks to reduce this gap between ideas and their execution.
For example, we can take i×j
to be the type of matrices with i rows and j
columns, then give multiplication the type
i×j →
j×k →
Epigram is a
dependently typed functional language, equipped with
an interactive programming environment. Epigram programs elaborate to
constructions in Type Theory by a process strongly resembling inductive
theorem proving. This is no idle coincidence. Epigram uses induction
princples—expressed by types and interpreted by programs—to
characterize derivable notions of pattern matching and recursion in a
flexible and extensible way. Epigram's definition and elaboration rules
can be found in
view from the left', by myself and James McKinna.
The language and system continue to be developed at Durham, St Andrews,
Royal Holloway and here in Nottingham.
I shall illustrate Epigram by example, working 'live' at
the machine, journeying from induction principles to functional programs
and back again.
Joint Base Station Scheduling
We are considering the problem where n mobile users want to get data from
m base stations. Every base station is capable to send data to arbitrary
user and this creates an interference around the base station in the form
of a disk with radius equal to the distance of the user to the base station.
We assume that sending data to a user takes one time unit (one round) and
user can receive the data only when it is not in interference produced
by another base station. The goal is to assign users to base stations and
find the round in which the user is served by the assigned base station
while MINIMIZING the number of rounds. We study both one dimensional and
two dimensional case. We present 2-apporoximation algorithm for the 1D-case
and leave the complexity unsolved. For the 2D case we show the problem
is NP-hard and show some lower bounds on some natural greedy algorithms.
Total Pasta: Static Analysis For Unfailing Pointer Programs
Most errors in computer programs are only found once they are run, which
results in critical errors being missed due to inadequate testing. If
static analysis is performed, then the possibility exists for detecting
such errors, and correcting them. This helps to improve the quality of
the resulting code, increasing reliability.
A static analysis has been developed and implemented for the
experimental pointer based language Pasta, which is designed to
represent pointer manipulating code, such as data structures. The
analysis checks for totality, proving that a particular procedure cannot
crash and will always terminate. Where a procedure does not satisfy
this, the preconditions for the procedure are generated.
Geometric Interpretation of Crossover
Boiling down the non-algorithmic differences, the various evolutionary
algorithms differ only in the solution representation and the relative
genetic operators (mutation and crossover) customized for the specific
representation. A way to treat different representations uniformly is
therefore prerequisite for unification. The focal questions of my
research are: what is mutation? what is crossover? what is common
in all mutation operators and all crossover operators beyond the
specific representation? In the talk I will give my answers to these
questions and discuss a number of surprising implications: (i) unveiling
the geometric nature of evolutionary search (ii) simplifying and
clarifying the connections between mutation, crossover, neighbourhood
structure and fitness landscape (iii) giving rigorous general
representation-independent definitions of genetic operators forming a
solid ground for the generalization of pre-existing representation-specific
theories (many, incomplete, fragmented, partially inconsistent bits
of theory) and (iv) suggesting a easy and automatic way to do crossover
principled design for any solution representation.
Generic Programming in a Dependently Typed Language
It is possible using dependent types to write equality functions that give
results in a more informative type than just Bool, we can construct as a
result either a proof that the two are in fact the same thing or a proof
that they are not. Another dependently typed trick is to use reflection
to define the type of regular types (with constructors mu, +, *, One,
Zero, etc) and then the type of elements for a given regular type (in for
mu, inl/inr for +, pairing for *, etc). By combining reflection and a
more informative equality testing we can write a data-type generic
equality test that is obviously correct from it's type.
Tool support for Modular SOS
Modular SOS (MSOS) is a variant of conventional SOS. Using MSOS,
the transition rules for each construct of a programming language
can be given incrementally, and do not need reformulation when
further constructs are added to the described language. MSOS thus
provides an exceptionally high degree of modularity in semantic
descriptions, removing a shortcoming of the original SOS framework.
The crucial feature of MSOS is that labels on transitions are now
morphisms of a category, and exploited to ensure the appropriate
flow of information (such as environments and stores) during
The talk first recalls the foundations of MSOS, and illustrates
how MSOS descriptions are written in practice. It then introduces
a Prolog-based system that can be used for validating MSOS
descriptions. An earlier version of the system has been used to
support undergraduate courses on semantics at Aarhus and Monash.
Extensible Knowledge Space (EKS)
The research proposes model of extensible knowledge and its dynamic change
using classical computer science. The model has been systematically
developed into working educational software for module organisation.
Exploring Lightweight Implementations of Generics
In the paper "A lightweight implementation of generics and dynamics" Ralf
Hinze presents a simple approach to generic programming that does not require
major extensions to Haskell 98 type system. Type representations are used
to "typecase" over the structure of types. While the approach is quite
powerful, supporting generic functions over nearly all Haskell datatypes,
it has still some limitations. One of those limitations consists on the
impossibility to override the behaviour of a polytipic definition at
some specific instances.
In this talk I will show how to address this problem using ad-hoc
polymorphism. This can be readily implemented in Haskell using a
two-parameter type class, however this has some drawbacks. Those drawbacks
could be removed with a small language extension.
A Framework Based on Coordination and Software Architecture for Mobile Systems
Due to technological advances in the past years of which the World Wide Web
and mobile phones are only two striking examples distributed and mobile
systems have become more common. Disciplines like Software Engineering
have studied the decomposition and design of systems, but there is still
very little support for the development of this new kind of applications.
The goal of this work is to develop a methodological approach and support
tools for the modelling of distributed and mobile systems along three
architectural views Computation, Coordination and Distribution. This
approach has a sound semantic basis over the CommUnity architectural
approach developed by Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Antonia Lopes and Michel
Wermelinger. The views to be developed will also provide support for
the distributed execution of the modelled system. Finally, the CommUnity
Workbench developed by the candidate in his MSc thesis will be extended
to the overall the framework, thus providing a tool for modelling mobile
systems according to the developed architectural views, following the
developed methodology, and animating them using the developed technologies.
Automatic Presentations and Classes of Semigroups
Structures presentable by finite automata are of growing interest,
particularly as the closure properties of automata give a generic
algorithm for deciding first order properties. The work presented here
is a contribution to the foundational problem: given a class of structures
X, classify the members of X which have an automatic presentation. The
classes considered here are various interesting subclasses of the class
of finitely generated semigroups. In particular, a classification for
the class of finitely generated groups allows a direct comparison with
the theory of automatic groups.
Computational Completeness of Rule-Based Languages
We study the computational completeness of rule-based programming
languages on arbitrary domains. We only assume a universe of rules
and a domain of objects such that rules induce binary relations on
the domain. Programs are built from three constructs: nondeterministic
application of a finite set of rules, either (a) in one step or (b) as
long as possible, and (c) sequential composition of programs. We present
a completeness condition guaranteeing that every computable binary relation
(and hence every computable partial function) on the domain is computed by
some program. Instantiating the abstract framework with string, term or
graph rewriting yields computationally complete languages. In each of these
cases, omitting either the construct ``as long as possible'' or the
sequential composition results in an incomplete language. For string and
graph rewriting, the one-step application of rules cannot be omitted either
and hence the string and graph rewriting languages are minimal.
Succinctness (invited talk)
We describe a new tool called CSP-Prover which is an interactive theorem
prover dedicated to refinement proofs within the process algebra CSP. It
aims specifically at proofs on infinite state systems, which may also
involve infinite non-determinism.
Semantically, CSP-Prover offers both classical approaches to
denotational semantics: the theory of complete metric spaces as well as
the theory of complete partial orders. Technically, CSP-Prover is based
on the generic theorem prover Isabelle, using the logic HOL-Complex.
Within this logic, the syntax as well as the semantics of CSP is
encoded, i.e., CSP-Prover provides a deep encoding of CSP.
Our applications include refinement proofs (1) in the context of an
industrial case study on formalising an electronic payment system and
(2) for the classical example of the dining mathematicians.
On the Computation of the Linear Complexity and the k-error Complexity of Binary Sequences With Period a Power of Two
The linear complexity of a sequence (i.e. the length of the shortest
recurrence relation, or Linear Feedback Shift Register which generates the
sequence) is a fundamental parameter for virtually all applications of
linearly recurrent sequences, including cryptography. Computing the linear
complexity of a linearly recurrent sequence takes in general quadratic time,
using the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm. For binary sequences whose period N is
a power of two, Games and Chan developed a more efficient, linear algorithm.
For such sequences, the k-error linear complexity (i.e. the minimum
complexity that can be obtained by changing up to k terms in a period) can
also be computed in linear time and space using the Stamp-Martin algorithm.
The whole k-error linear complexity spectrum can be computed in O(N log^2 N)
by the Lauder-Paterson algorithm. In our talk we will first show that one
can use the Games-Chan, Stamp-Martin and Lauder-Paterson algorithms to
compute the analogue notions of linear complexity and k-error linear
complexity for finite sequences. Secondly, using ideas from the Stamp-Martin
and Lauder-Paterson algorithms we develop a new algorithm which computes the
minimum number of errors needed to bring the linear complexity of a sequence
below a given value. This algorithm has linear (bit) time and space
complexity and can also be used for encoding and decoding certain binary
repeated-root codes. We improve thus on a previous O(N log^2 N) decoding
algorithm of Lauder and Paterson.
Event Structure Semantics for Higher Order Process Calculi
There are many different process calculi for modelling concurrent processes.
It is desirable to give a denotational semantics for them that will allow
them to be related. Event structure spans appear to provide a very natural
semantics fo r a variety of higher order processes, including Affine HOPLA
[Winskel, Nygaard]. However, they are currently limited by the fact that
many forms of parallel composition of processes are given an interleaving
semantics. I will explore som e ideas for overcoming this problem and
present a small process language together with its semantics with partially
synchronous parallel composition as a construct.
A Typed Semantics for Languages with Higher-Order Store and Subtyping
In languages like ML references to functions may be created. The heap
store of such languages is often referred to as higher-order. While it
is fairly straightforward to obtain untyped domain models for languages
involving higher-order store, modelling types is much harder. This is due
to a mixed-variant mutual recursive definition of types and store.
Paul Levy has presented an elegant typed model of higher-order store,
based on a possible worlds semantics. I will briefly outline its
construction before extending the type system with a simple notion of
subtyping. This has the consequence that derivations of typing
judgements are no longer unique. By adapting a neat proof method due
to John Reynolds I prove coherence, using a Kripke logical relation
and retractions between the typed and untyped models. The resulting
semantics is sufficiently expressive to interpret Abadi and Cardelli's
(imperative) object calculus.
Graph Programs for Graph Algorithms
Graph programs as introduced by Habel and Plump provide a simple and yet
computationally complete language for computing functions and relations
on graphs. We extended this language such that numerical computations on
labels can be conveniently expressed. The resulting language has a
simple syntax and semantics and therefore facilitates reasoning on
programs. In this talk, we will present the language GP and its
semantics. We will demonstrate the use of GP by giving programs
for Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and showing how to prove
correctness and complexity properties.
Routing via Single-Source and Multiple-Source Queries in Static Sensor Networks
Sensor networks are a newly emerged and promising field in wireless
computing. They consist of a large number of sensor nodes with small
transmission range, limited memory, limited power and limited computational
capacity. These features make communication in sensor networks different
from traditional networks. This talk is about the routing problem in
static sensor networks. We show how to finish the routing in both the
single source case and the multiple source case using limited memory
and energy. After we do the preprocessing, we can finish the routing
in optimal transmissions for the single source case. For the multiple
case, it is also an asymptotically optimal algorithm.
The Gap between Crossing Numbers and Outerplanar Crossing Numbers
An outerplanar drawing of an n-vertex graph G=(V(G),E(G)) is a drawing in
which the vertices are placed on the corners of a convex n-gon in the
plane and each edge is drawn using one straight line segment. We derive a
general lower bound on the number of crossings in any outerplanar drawing
of G, using isoperimetric properties of G. The lower bound implies that
outerplanar drawings of many planar graphs have at least $Omega(n\log n)$
crossings. Moreover, for any drawing of $G$ with $c$ crossings in the
plane, we construct an outerplanar drawing with at most
$O((c+\sum_{v\in V}d^2_v)\log n)$ crossings, where $d_v$ is the degree of
$v$. This upper bound is asymptotically tight. For planar graphs, a
outerplanar drawing with the required properties can be constructed in
$O(n\log n)$ time.
Groups With A Co-Context Free Word Problem
The purpose of this talk is to survey some interesting connections between
formal language theory on the one hand and group theory on the other.
Given a group G generated by a finite set X, the "word problem" of G consists
of all words over X that represent the identity element of G. One natural
question is to ask about the connections between the complexity of the word
problem (as a formal language) and the algebraic structure of G.
The purpose of this talk is to survey some recent results on the set of
groups whose word problem is the complement of a context-free language;
this is joint work with Derek Holt, Claas Roever and Sarah Rees. The talk
is intended to be expository; we will not assume any prior knowledge of
group theory and we will review what we need from formal language theory.
Finally, a Simple Semantics
In this talk we develop a simple functional language in which to explore
the semantics of synchronous exceptions and asynchronous interrupts. In
particular, we seek to define a finally operator in terms of
primitives of the language, and prove that this operator has the desired
behaviour. We are not interested in whether the language is practical
for programming. This is part of a larger program of work concerned with
the semantics of the exception handling mechanisms provided in Concurrent
Haskell, and reasoning about operators and programs written using them.
New Solution for Multiple Mobile Agent Rendezvous in a Ring
We study the rendezvous search problem for k >= 2 mobile agents in an n
node ring. Each agent has only logK memory, and the one token. Our idea
is that we let all the agents start traverse with different speed, also,
that speed is not fixed! Under some condition, the agent may change its
speed. So we can guarantee all of the agents can finally meet together
in the non-periodic case.
Nondeterministic Quantum Programming
In standard computation, nondeterminism provides a way for specifying
and reasoning about programs. In particular, nondeterminism is used for
specifying programs' behaviour, without having to specify details of
implementation. Such details may be made more precise (refined) at a
later stage, though program correctness is preserved throughout reasoning.
In quantum computation, nondeterminism is either meant to be "classical"
probabilism or it is not considered at all, since quantum computation is
the physical theory of computation and thus it does not deal with
non-implementable features. However, the most known examples of quantum
computation (e.g. Shor's factoring algorithm and Deutsch-Jozsa's algorithm)
have natural nondeterministic specifications: the former returns any prime
factor of a given integer number, while the latter resolves whether a given
boolean function is either non-balanced or non-constant (or both). In this
talk we argue that nondeterminism arises in other examples of quantum
computation. In particular, we consider nondeterminism embedded in a
programming language for quantum computation, qGCL, and use that to model
and reason about quantum nonlocality and quantum mixed-state systems.
Quantum nonlocality has been puzzling physicists since the '30s: events
may have simultaneous effects, no matter how far one from the other they
occur. Nonlocality is an intrinsic feature of Nature: it has been actually
proved (both theoretically and experimentally) that any theory wishing to
mimick certain physical experiments must necessarily be non-local (i.e.
allowing those simultaneous effects). In this work we analyse an "ideal"
experiment showing nonlocality. We code it using qGCL and we show that
local theories cannot fully predict the outcomes of the experiment.
Mixed-state systems are a generalisation of standard quantum systems for
which the state is best described by a probability distribution over "pure"
quantum states. Mixed state systems find application in the description
of "real" quantum systems where, due to unavoidable causes (e.g.
imperfections in our apparatuses or interactions with the environment),
the exact state of the system cannot be specified. We show that qGCL can
model such systems by proving that the treatment of mixed states in qGCL
is consistent with the corresponding quantum formalism.
Russell Boyatt, University of Warwick
Paul Bell, University Liverpool
William Blum, University of Oxford
Mark Callanan, University of Kent
James Chapman, University of Nottingham
Olaf Chitil, University of Kent
Jolie de Miranda, University of Oxford
Aleksandar Dimovski, University of Warwick
Attila Egri-Nagy, University of Hertfordshire
Osama Elhassan, University of Leicester
Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester
Neil Ghani, University of Leicester
Prof Alan Gibbons, King's College London, and
Dr Martyn Amos, University of Exeter
Andy Gimblett, University of Wales Swansea
Dr Andrew Gordon, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Jonathan Grattage, University of Nottingham
Gregory Gutin, Royal Holloway, University of London
Will Harwood, University of Wales Swansea
Hongmei He, University of Loughborough
Dr Ralf Hinze, University of Bonn
Michael Hoffmann, University of Leicester
Catherine Hope, University of Nottingham
Matthew Johnson, University of Durham
Mark Jago, University of Nottingham
Oliver Kullmann, University of Wales Swansea
Alexander Kurz, University of Leicester
David Manlove, University of Glasgow
Dr Conor McBride, University of Nottingham
Matus Mihalak, University of Leicester
Neil Mitchell, University of York
Alberto Moraglio, University of Essex
Peter Morris, University of Nottingham
Peter Mosses, University of Wales Swansea
Wasana Ngaogate, University of Warwick
Bruno Oliveira, University of Oxford
Cristovao Oliveira, University of Leicester
Graham Oliver, University of Leicester
Detlef Plump, University of York
Prof Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester
Markus Roggenbach, University of Wales Swansea
Ana Salagean, University of Loughborough
Lucy Saunders-Evans, University of Cambridge
Jan Schwinghammer, University of Sussex
Sandra Steinert, University of York
Chang Su, University of Liverpool
Ondrej Sykora, University of Loughborough
Rick Thomas, University of Leicester
Joel Wright, University of Nottingham
Xiaohui Zhang, University of Liverpool
Paolo Zuliani, Princeton University, USA


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Accuracy International's L115A3 - the best .338 sniper rifle in the world
By Mike Hanlon
November 26, 2008
The sniper is one of the most feared specialists of war and he is one workman who definitely relies on the right tools. There are a surprising number of sniper rifle manufacturers out there, so it's a big call when one declares itself to be the best .338 in the world, though the raw specifications of the Accuracy International L115A3 sniper rifle suggest there is merit to the claim. The £23,000 (US$34,000) rifle was designed incorporating performance-enhancing features gleaned from international target shooting and fires an 8.59mm bullet which is heavier than the 7.62mm round of the previous L96 and hence less likely to be deflected over extremely long ranges. Put the 6.8kg rifle in the right hands and it can hit a human-sized target from 1400 meters. Even at that range, it hits harder than a .44 Magnum does in the same room.
The muzzle velocity of the L115A3 is 936 metres per second (up from 838m/s) giving it an effective range of 1400 metres compared to the L96's 800m, and not surprisingly, the Schmidt & Bender day sights now magnify up to 25 times, compared with the L96's 12 times.
The L115A3s are part of the British Ministry of Defence's Sniper System Improvement Programme (SSIP), which includes new night sights, spotting scopes, laser range finders and tripods.
The first batch of SSIP systems was deployed to Afghanistan with members of 16 Air Assault Brigade earlier this year and reports suggest the claim of "the best .338 sniper rifle in the world"
Portsmouth-based Accuracy International was established in 1978 by two-times Olympic shooting Gold medallist Malcolm Cooper, and its high-accuracy sniper rifles are in use with military and police forces worldwide including many elite military units (the British SAS and reportedly the US Delta Force too).
In terms of the best .5o sniper rifle in the world, that mantle almost certainly goes to the McMillan Bros Tac-50 used by Canadian Special Forces in Afghanistan that holds the all time record kill at 2430 meters.
The skill of Canadian snipers combined with the fire power of the "Big Mac" made it very dangerous for the Taliban fighters to expose themselves if only for a few seconds. There are many accounts of the 2430 meter kill shot on the net. That's two and a half kilometres!
its wonderful machine
Fadhili Bornies M2nd May, 2010 @ 11:28 pm PDT
I think best sniper is British L115A3 AWM
Sarah Hudson26th July, 2011 @ 10:11 pm PDT
Like a sniper would wear a beret with a nice shiny cap badge!
Vaughan Williams1st August, 2011 @ 03:25 am PDT
Wow!This is definetly state of the art technology!
Richard J Eipl23rd November, 2011 @ 05:26 pm PST
Yeah, won't be long till the police are armed with these beauties and murdering civilians from far, far away instead of real close up! So much nicer when you're never even in any danger and can murder people without having to worry about being charged or even have it known it was you that did the deed! Sweet! But heaven forbid someone kill a cop.
semajretrac5th January, 2012 @ 11:39 am PST
You need to do your homework before publishing such outrageous claims. Personally I prefer the .416 Barrett. In a second season episode of Future Weapons the host (Richard Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL) engaged in a shooting competition with another sniper. Machowicz achieved a cold-bore first-shot "kill" at 2,500 yards (2,286 m) using a .416 Barrett Model 99 rifle while his competition, using a .50 BMG, required three shots to achieve a "kill". The .416 Barrett Model 99 rifle Mr. Machowicz used during this competition was equipped with a Barrett Optical Ranging System (BORS) module attached to the telescopic sight.
RESISTANCE28th October, 2012 @ 03:36 pm PDT
Put up some props on the ranging equip, there has to be some better ones.
Kevin Wheeler26th January, 2013 @ 11:05 pm PST
Great !!!! just what the world needs , another example of man`s ability to kill one another .......
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For Laminations of the Flame Princess I also did a Sorcerer [wizard]. Here we see him trying to use more mundane methods of finding power.
Now for a few Dwarfy bits. White Dwarf Magazine that is. I was asked to illustrate an adventure called 'Night of Blood' [imagine thunder peels and Hammer films screechy music]. I wasn't given a lot of space, except for the colour demon, and was in a phase of trying to experiment with picture 'telling' and where I was allowed [that is nobody said anything] to indulge in a sort of homage to Albrecht Durer, which, if you read the Blackgate piece, you'll know was [is] a favourite of mine, as is a lot of Renaissance art. Anyway from WDM 87 here are those pictures.
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Rivera disappointed in the closing session of training camp
SPARTANBURG Overall, Panthers coach Ron Rivera called the 2013 training camp a success.
But the third-year head coach would have liked to see a little more focus and a stronger finish on Tuesday morning, the final practice at Wofford College.
"We slowed down at the end, and unfortunately I think the guys were thinking about I-85," Rivera said. "But the beginning of practice was really good, real smooth, a lot of good things happened. Then you could kind of tell they were a little bit wandering. I think they were thinking about going home. I wish they could have finished practice and focused all the way through.
Rivera delivered a passionate message to the team as they huddled after practice, telling the players that the team "can't have distractions" in the day and a half before the Panthers take on Philadelphia on Thursday night.
"I know this is our move, we'll be back in Charlotte the next time we get together, and we got to be able to stay focused as we get ready to go up to Philadelphia," Rivera said.
Injury notes: Right tackle Byron Bell left practice early with an illness. A bug has been going around the team. Ryan Kalil, Garry Williams, Haruki Nakamura and Greg Hardy have all dealt with the illness this week at camp.
Defensive tackle Frank Kearse was not at practice Tuesday nursing a knee injury, Rivera said.
Is this a reason for concern or just human nature ?
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Human nature. They know that camp is ending. Couple that with the lousy field conditions and the growing number of injuries, it doesn't surprise me they want to get the hell out of there.
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No concern here. It happens...heck look at me..Im supposed to be working but I'm on the panthers huddle...
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Posted 13 August 2013 - 12:25 PM
Grown men, living in dorms, on a sleep curfew... yeah i'd want to get back home too
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season over.
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Grass was wet and field conditions weren't the greatest today. Guys didn't want to go all out and get hurt the last day of camp. I wouldn't read to much into it.


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September 18th, 2012 in Pediatrics /A community-based scalable weight-management program correlates with significant reductions in overweight status in children, according to a study published online Sept. 17 in Pediatrics.
(HealthDay)—A community-based scalable weight-management program correlates with significant reductions in overweight status in children, according to a study published online Sept. 17 in Pediatrics.
Gary D. Foster, Ph.D., from Temple University in Philadelphia, and colleagues assessed the effect of a scalable weight-management program in a cohort of 155 children (mean age, 11.3 years; body mass index [BMI] z-score, 2.23; percentage overweight, 72.5) and their parent/guardians. Ninety-two percent of the children were obese and 46.5 percent were in the ≥ 99th percentile for BMI.
The researchers found that the children experienced a significant 3.4 percent reduction in percentage overweight at six months. The percentage point reduction in percentage overweight was 4.3 for those younger than 13 years and 1.0 for those aged 13 or older. Greater changes in percentage overweight were seen for those who attended more face-to-face group sessions. Both children and parents reported significant improvements in child health-related quality of life.
"Our findings indicate that a scalable pediatric obesity intervention delivered in community-based facilities is feasible and results in clinically significant outcomes, including improvements in weight status, as well as health-related quality of life," the authors write. "Given that outcomes from school-based pediatric obesity interventions are variable and the most effective programs reside in tertiary care centers, this community-based program has the potential to address a yet unmet need for a feasible, scalable, and effective pediatric obesity treatment that can reach millions of children and teenagers."
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Taking its name from the host city of Giswil, Switzerland, KAWS' "Giswil" exhibition opened last week at More Gallery. The centerpiece of the show is two massive wooden Companion figures, one standing in a slumped posture and the other seated, both reminiscent of the collaboration with Japanese furniture maker Karimoku but blown up to an impressive scale. In addition to the towering sculptures, the exhibition will also include paintings in the New York artist's inimitable style. The KAWS Giswil Exhibition at More Gallery is open every day through Art Basel and will continue until August 26th. Check out detailed images of the Companion sculptures below.
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